shire. The treatment of the drills of Potatoes -which thus 

 withered away three weeks before the others was in every 

 respect the same as that of the rest of the field, and I neither 

 know nor can conceive any reason, except the wetness of 

 the ground, why they did not continue to grow as long and 

 prove as good as the others. 



SECOND MEETING. 



ROYAL INSTITUTION, November 3rd, 1845. 

 JOS. B. YATES, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. Walter Butler was admitted a Member. 



The Treasurer read a statement of the Accounts, 

 showing the balance in hand to be £259 19s. lid. 



The Secretary read a letter from Dr. Hume, pre- 

 senting fifty copies of his Paper on " "^orks of Fiction" 

 to the Members. The thanks of the Society were offered 

 to Dr. Hume. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the Botanical 

 Society of London, accompanying 100 species of Plants, 

 and requesting Plants from the neighbourhood of Liverpool. 

 The Secretary was directed to acknowledge the receipt of 

 the Plants, and to offer the thanks of the Society for the 

 donation. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Archer, 

 Dr. Brett, and Rev. Dr. Hume, the Sub-Committee 

 appointed to superintend the Printing of the Report. 



Mr. Turner exhibited some interesting Fossils from 

 Antigua, in the West Indies. ' They had been procured in 

 the ridge of that island that runs west of Willoughby Bay, 

 in the mountain whose geology has been so well described 

 by Dr. Nugent. The remains of fish were seen in great 

 beauty, in a deposit of argillaceous clay, which seemed to 

 be mixed with the detritus of coral reefs. It appeared 

 that they belong to a variety of the finny tribes, which has 

 not yet been noticed in the records of ichthyology. Some 

 of the specimens consisted of West India Wood, in a state 

 of complete silicification. Among these were " lignum 

 c 



